 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 Seiten
...That waft the breath of grace divine To hearts in sloth and ease. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean. IV. 0, WELL for the fortunate soul Which Music's wings infold, Stealing away the memory Of sorrows... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
...sunshine and the showers, Time hath his work to do, and we have oursSo nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man ; When Duty whispers low ' Thou must/ The youth replies, ' I can.' THE MAN OF LETTERS. AH ADDRESS DELIVERED BEFORE THE LITERARY SOCIETIES OF WATERVILLE COLLEGE,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
...through snow, Where way is none, 'twill creep and wind And eat through Alps its home to find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — ' 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 463 Seiten
...the action of this sentiment of the Right, his heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die." Such is the difference... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
...through snow* Where way is none, 'twill creep and wind And eat through Alps its home to find. SACRIFICE. THOUGH love repine, and reason chafe, There came a...voice without reply, — *'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.' PERICLES. WELL and wisely said the Greek, Be thou faithful,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 441 Seiten
...if they had been carved on marble for a thousand years : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can." 16 " Saadi " was published in the " Atlantic Monthly" in 1864, "My Garden" in 1866, " Terminus " in... | |
 | Johanne Lohse - 1884 - 136 Seiten
...irksome or disagreeable is no reason whatever for not doing it. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can* VIII. ' ' Bestow thy youth so that thou mayst have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1884 - 36 Seiten
...wronged and degraded humanity. The great soul saw and understood. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterward said : "I love inexpressibly these streets of... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1884 - 36 Seiten
...wronged and degraded humanity. The great soul saw and understood. " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, lean." Already the Boston boy felt what he afterward said : "I love inexpressibly these streets of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 623 Seiten
..." mortal mixed of middle clay," in the Poems. Page 38, note I. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. " Voluntaries," Poems. Page 39, note I. And through man and woman and sea and star Saw the dance... | |
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, / can! 
